“Yet the bold ‘directive’ is also founded on two problematic assumptions about the community of Wikipedia editors: first, that its members will be treated fairly in interactions with others, and second, that its members have equal access to this disposition of boldness…

The directive itself assumes a heterarchy of social power, a level playing field, that deviates from the reality of socio-material power
relations in Wikipedia”

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/379899833_Navigating_the_emotional_terrain_of_Wikipedia_writing_A_feminist_affective_analysis_of_student_writers’_engagement_with_the_be_bold_guideline

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